The glass is half full, not half empty.

I'm hesitant to even tell anyone about this site, because I've basically fallen in like with it. Maybe even love. And the last thing I would ever want to happen was for it to become corrupted with bullshit. It's called Makes Me Think. And it does just that, makes me think. Part of me is kinda disappointed when I go to the site every day and there's only one, maybe two new posts for me to read. But then I realized that it's not like My Life Is Average, Texts From Last Night, or even F My Life in the fact that it's not .. what's the word. Fake? Posed? Lies? Yes, all of those things and even more than that. It actually makes you think. It's actually real life stories (and I hope it stays that way).

As much as I would love to get to read fifty or more posts a day, that wouldn't have as much affect on a person. I'm sure not everyone can appreciate these kinds of stories. I've come to realize that there are a lot of people in this sad world that are incapable of feeling any real emotion. For those that may be thinking that I once said, "I don't like showing emotion", so I must be unable to actually feel emotion, that is so far from the truth. It's really pretty hard to explain, but I'm going to try. I have such a diverse range of emotions that I feel every day. Happy, sad, sarcastic, tired, angry, rinse and repeat. Normally it isn't gradual changes in mood. My aunt once explained it to me how she sees it while we waited for a train in Boston, she said that there's a green, yellow, and red zone for every [normal] person. Green is good, red is bad, yellow is in between. She told me that I do not have a yellow zone. There's no buffer zone for me. It's instant. The littlest things affect me. Which is also part of the reason that I do my best to not show anything at all. It's really easier for some people to understand that, then for them to realize that I'm ... sensitive. I (dontyoudarerepeatthis ..even if I'm putting it on the Internet) actually get choked up during some songs on the radio. For reasons I still to this day do not understand.

Sometimes these posts on MMT hit closer to home than others. I've had a few make me tear up. A few I didn't even understand because I couldn't possibly imagine how I would feel. A few make me happy in a weird kind of way. Some just give me goosebumps. But they all cause me to feel and most importantly, think about something other than myself and that's what some people need. To get their minds off of their own lives. A lot of people tend to get so absorbed in their own situations that they forget that sometimes there are actually people that are worse off, or had really terrible things happen to them, that when you sit back and evaluate your own life, you realize that getting a B on a test or missing the bus really isn't that big of a deal. Just remember, when you think your life is hard, there's probably someone else nearby that has it even that much harder. When life seems bad, don't forget that it could always be worse.

xoxo, the little birdy.